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Carolina for Kibera Team - ghdLAB 2011
ghdLAB blends classroom learning and action-based field projects. Every year over the course of several months, including an intensive period on site, teams of four experienced graduate students each work with an organization on the front lines of care delivery to address a pressing operational or strategic challenge. The ghdLAB team invests weeks of preparation to develop each project’s focus in collaboration with our partners, with whom we are building ongoing relationships and shared knowledge. For each project, students work with MIT faculty, domain experts, and the leaders and staff in the partner enterprise to bring to bear the best of their MBA toolkit, aiming to deliver a sustained improvement for each host organization that informs and is informed by both classroom and field-based components of the course.

CFK fights abject poverty and promotes youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum. In partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), CFK runs the Tabitha Clinic, a three-story facility in the heart of Kibera. Even though over 40,000 patients were seen last year, utilization and access to available services have been lower than expected: while the clinic has a daily capacity of about 300 patients, it receives about half that number. By shadowing the staff and patients at the clinic, and carrying out surveys with the help of local peer youth educators in 75 households in 6 villages in Kibera, the MIT team identified some key trends in local health care decisions and values, and delivered an assessment about how to improve utilization through four areas: awareness, pricing, patient equality, and range of services. Key deliverables include a pamphlet design, a template for flyers advertising monthly Wednesday health forums, and a work-in-progress pricing model.

This video is meant to showcase the experiences of students participating in MIT Sloan’s ghdLAB, which is an intensive course that has MIT Sloan MBA students working in the classroom and in the field with enterprises in developing and emerging markets to address problem posed by the entrepreneurs themselves. One major question is: Why do so many people fail to benefit from the vast progress that modern medicine has made.

In February 2011, 44 students travelled to Africa and India in teams of four to try to understand the challenges of delivering health care in resource limited settings and to lend their business skill sets to the organizations trying to solve these problems. The results of this course were life changing, for students, the organizations they worked with and the populations these organizations serve.

In this video you will see pictures and clips, taken by the teams themselves, showing the beauty of Africa, the communities’ students lived and worked in, and the interaction between students and their hosts

By Fall 2011, the experience of the first three years of ghdLAB had borne out our initial idea: that we could generate an amazing learning experience for MIT students while aiming to deliver practical help to partners on the front lines of health care delivery. We set our sights on continuing to develop both teaching and impact, while asking: can we build a base of experience and ideas for the emerging study of innovation, implementation, and improvement in healthcare delivery and management?

In this MIT Sloan class, teams of four students each partner with an organization on the front lines of care delivery. Together, they design an action learning project to address factors that limit their delivery of health care. Over the course of several months, including an intensive period on site, students work with MIT faculty, domain experts, and the leaders and staff in the partner enterprise and bring to bear the best of their MIT toolkit to help generate value for all.

Since 2008, over 150 experienced MIT graduate students have conducted around 40 unpaid projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Malawi, and India, each involving around 1,000 person-hours of student work. Partner organizations set their own project’s focus and offset some costs. Support from MIT Sloan School of Management’s generous alumni and friends makes up the rest.

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Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:30:36 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/14635-ghdlab-in-the-world-for-the-world
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ghdLAB: in the world, for the world
global health at MIT Sloan 3 minute interviews: 2010 MIT Sloan students on their experience in Africa
A dozen student teams had spent January of that year tackling operational, business, and management challenges in health care delivery in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, working on the key issues that each partner framed. Before they left for the field, students had spent four months preparing for their work on the ground, designing a practical solution to the problem they'd learned about from extensive conversations with their host organizations and with faculty, experts, and classmates at MIT. Our partnering host organizations included for-profit, faith-based, multinational non-governmental and community organizations, both large and small.

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3 minute interviews: 2010 MIT Sloan students on their experience in Africa
global health at MIT Sloan 3 minute interviews: 2010 MIT Sloan students on their experience in Africa
A dozen student teams had spent January of that year tackling operational, business, and management challenges in health care delivery in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, working on the key issues that each partner framed. Before they left for the field, students had spent four months preparing for their work on the ground, designing a practical solution to the problem they'd learned about from extensive conversations with their host organizations and with faculty, experts, and classmates at MIT. Our partnering host organizations included for-profit, faith-based, multinational non-governmental and community organizations, both large and small.

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3 minute interviews: 2010 MIT Sloan students on their experience in Africa
global health at MIT Sloan ghdLAB hosts give us feedback on our work We asked them 2 questions: In a sentence, what’s different now as a result of the project? And, what stands out in your memory from the project with the MIT team — what one moment / idea / or tool do you recall from the experience?

This is a collection of some of their answers.
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Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:57:08 -0400http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/12298-ghdlab-hosts-give-us-feedback-on-our-work
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ghdLAB hosts give us feedback on our work
global health at MIT Sloan Final ghdLAB presentation: Muthaiga Clinic, Part 2 of 2 (Jan '10)Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:10:26 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/10489-final-ghdlab-presentation-muthaiga-clinic-part-2-of-2-jan-10
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Final ghdLAB presentation: Muthaiga Clinic, Part 2 of 2 (Jan '10)
final student presentations on site Final ghdLAB presentation: Muthaiga Clinic, Part 1 of 2 (Jan '10)Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:59:46 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/10486-final-ghdlab-presentation-muthaiga-clinic-part-1-of-2-jan-10
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Final ghdLAB presentation: Muthaiga Clinic, Part 1 of 2 (Jan '10)
final student presentations on site Final student presentation: Gertrude's Garden - GLab GHD 2008-9Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:18:19 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/4724-final-student-presentation-gertrude-s-garden-glab-ghd-2008-9
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Final student presentation: Gertrude's Garden - GLab GHD 2008-9
final student presentations on site Advice to Future GHD and G-Lab StudentsTue, 08 Dec 2009 13:17:48 -0500http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/4723-advice-to-future-ghd-and-g-lab-students
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Advice to Future GHD and G-Lab Students
student videos on the projects, learning, and experiences Student Experience in Africa: Highlights from G-Lab GHD 2008-9
In January, 53 students travelled to Africa in teams of four to Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sierra Leone to try to understand the challenges of delivering health care in resource limited settings and to lend their business skill sets to the organizations trying to solve these problems. The results of this course were life changing, for students, the organizations they worked with and the populations these organizations serve.

In this video you will see pictures and clips, taken by the teams themselves, showing the beauty of Africa, the communities’ students lived and worked in, and the interaction between students and their hosts.

In addition, you will hear from Heather Pichette, a student in this course about her experience at CIDRZ, an infectious disease research organization in Zambia. She says:

“Although we learned about the challenges of health delivery in Africa prior to traveling there, seeing it with my own eyes was still a sobering experience. When we arrived at the clinic at 8am, there was already a line of patients who had been waiting since 5am to receive their medicines, and they might wait all day to see a clinician. It was explained to us that the accuracy of their lab results was integral for these patients, who had to choose between eating or coming to the clinic for testing. It was at that point when I realized how crucial our suggestions could be to the future of the organization and the local people.
I arrived home from Africa overwhelmed by what I had seen, and yet hopeful knowing the spirit and tenacity of the local organizations that were trying to improve life for the Zambian people.
G-lab Global Health Delivery provided me with one of the most valuable and rewarding experiences at Sloan, improving the lives of people in resource-constrained settings. I highly recommend this class to all students and think that its mission truly embraces the Sloan spirit of applying business skills to give back to the greater community.”

Thank you for watching! We hope this gives you a sense of the work we did, the fun we had and the impact we made.
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